
16 Station Road, St Mary’s Villa
History 16 Station Road
1881
(St Mary’s Villa)
Alfred Isaac Tillyard, 29, Classical Master M A Cambridge, born Norwich
[Alfred had been living with his mother in Fitzwilliam Road in the 1870s]
Notable Residents – Alfred Isaac Tillyard (1870s)
Catherine S, 28, born Cambridge
Angelina Minett, servant, 18, born Littleport
Alfred Isaac Tillyard was a local newspaper proprietor and editor. His wife Catherine Sarah (nee Wetenhall) was a proponent of higher eduction for women. They had four children:
Aelfrida Catherine Wetenhall Tillyard 1883 – 1959, author, medium and lecturer of comparative religion
Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard (1881-1968) expert in Byzantine musicology
Conrad Francis Wetenhall Tillyard (1885 – 1888)
Eustace Madebille Wetenhall Tillyard (1889 – 1961) active in English Literature studied and Master of Jesus College Cambridge
1891
(St Mary’s)
Arthur R Edwards
Elizabeth A
Evelyn M Owen, 19, wife’s sister,
Edith Roberts, 21, servant
Mary A Roberts, 18 servant
1901
Arthur R Edwards, 45, Managing Director Engineering, born Suffolk
Elizabeth A, 39, born Wales
Elizabeth Hitch, servant, 23, born Ely
1911;
Elizabeth Edith Betts, 57, single, private means, born Suffolk
Gertrude Olive Glasscock, 24, general servant, born Bottisham
1913
Miss Betts